You’re just not flexible now. Underneath all the built up tension is a young and flexible you. It is easy to get yourself back with a simple standing forward bend.
Stand in tadasana, mountain pose, with your feet about hip width apart. Relax the knees, tuck the tail bone, roll the shoulders back. Find a spot on the wall level with your eyes to focus on. Breathe here for a few moments, then take a deep breath in as you sweep your arms to the sky. Exhale as you fold down like a book, bending from the waist, letting the head drop. Breathe full relaxed breaths here for five minutes.
Your legs may start to shake. A teacher once said to me, “Shake when you’re young so you don’t shake when you’re old.”
To come out of the pose exhale as you slowly roll up, one vertebra at a time, bringing your head up last.
Do this daily and one day you will fold over like a book, right in half, effortlessly! See? You are flexible.
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